I live near Lake Michigan. People drown because they don’t respect the currents and the cold temperatures. They do things like diving off of piers , which is illegal . Of course alcohol can play a part in drownings too . The lake feels cold even in the middle of summer .
over 1,200 people have drowned in Lake Michigan since 2010
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StJoeJoe wrote:
I live in St. Joe and agree, people are idiots. They will jump off the piers into the water not realizing about undertow, cold water, etc.. The lake is really more similar to an ocean. People surf just like in the ocean, currents happen, hypothermia.
Most people are really dying from undertow in a lake? Or they fall off boats and it's cold.
Would like to see how many people drown in the ocean every year.01 -
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StJoeJoe wrote:
I live in St. Joe and agree, people are idiots. They will jump off the piers into the water not realizing about undertow, cold water, etc.. The lake is really more similar to an ocean. People surf just like in the ocean, currents happen, hypothermia.
Most people are really dying from undertow in a lake? Or they fall off boats and it's cold.
Would like to see how many people drown in the ocean every year.
very rarely is the case of people falling off into cold waters (does happens incidentally); most boat-related deaths are from intentionally jumping off (usually in summer, in very favorable conditions btw) and being too drunk to get yourself back on etc.
yes, majority of people succumb to the currents. the undertow is the big one especially by the piers. we've lost one too many highschoolers to undertows during michigan summers
the ocean is much larger and with very defined streams bc it's so huge; the great lakes move more randomly by way of wind, river streams feeding into the lake, and winter melting. lake michigan may not give you california surfing waves at the top but it truly is an unpredictable mess underwater
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I've watched guys surf in Grand Haven, maybe not California quality but there are waves...particularly in winter. Also, no sharks.
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Nancy B. wrote:
They're pulling bodies out on the daily in the southeaster corner of the lake, down by St. Joe and north, south, east, and west somewhat.
Wow, 400% of the Great Lakes drownings occur by St. Joe? Amazing!
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team Unruly Bush wrote:
Nancy B. wrote:
They're pulling bodies out on the daily in the southeaster corner of the lake, down by St. Joe and north, south, east, and west somewhat.
Wow, 400% of the Great Lakes drownings occur by St. Joe? Amazing!
I would like to see how many from Indiana and Illinois.
Reason is people from southern Indiana & southern Illinois have no experience being around such a huge body of water.
Us "Michiganders" are surrounded by the GL's. It's in our blood and being. We know weather can turn in a instant even on nice days.
I know how to snow ski pretty good. But that doesn't make me a expert skiing in Utah\Colorado back country on a "blue bird day" unaware of avalanche conditions.
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